Arriaga: The Three String Quartets

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

Release Date: 7th Aug 2020
Catalogue No: CC9117
Label: Cameo Classics
Length: 69 minutes

In stock

Usually despatched within 1 working day

Juan Chrisóstomo Arriaga: String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor

Work length26:19

$6.00

$7.80

Sydney Humphreys (violin), Trevor Williams (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
Aeolian Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length6:53

$1.00

$1.30

II. Adagio con espressione

Track length8:10

$2.00

$2.60

III. Menuetto & Trio

Track length3:25

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Adagio - Allegretto

Track length7:51

$2.00

$2.60

Juan Chrisóstomo Arriaga: String Quartet No. 2 in A Major

Work length20:58

$4.00

$5.20

Sydney Humphreys (violin), Trevor Williams (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
Aeolian Quartet

I. Allegro con brio

Track length6:19

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante

Track length6:17

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto & Trio; Scherzo

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Andante ma non troppo - Allegro

Track length4:59

$1.00

$1.30

Juan Chrisóstomo Arriaga: String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Major

Work length22:34

$4.00

$5.20

Sydney Humphreys (violin), Trevor Williams (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
Aeolian Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length5:43

$1.00

$1.30

II. Pastorale. Andantino

Track length6:50

$1.00

$1.30

III. Menuetto & Trio

Track length3:38

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Presto agitato

Track length6:23

$1.00

$1.30

About
Explore

About

In 1819 Arriaga’s opera Los esclavos felices appeared, of which only fragments remain. There were additionally some piano pieces, motets and patriotic hymns, amounting to about 20 works by 1821. In September of that year Arriaga left Spain. He met the Spanish ambassador in Paris, and the composer Cherubini, at that time one of the inspectors of the Paris Conservatoire. There he was admitted to the counterpoint class of a newly appointed professor Francois-Joseph Fétis (1784-1871), and to the violin class of Pierre Baillot. His Conservatoire prizes included those for counterpoint and fugue in both 1823 and 1824 – the year that Fétis took him as a teaching assistant. During these years Arriaga revised, and perhaps destroyed, several earlier works as well as producing a regular flow of new compositions. The three string quartets, probably written before 1822, were published in 1824. Arriaga was buried in the cemetery at Montmarte, his death, as reported by Fétis to his father, was attributed to overwork, exhaustion and an infection of the lungs. On the death of his father in 1836 the composer’s papers were divided between various family members and only reunited in the 1880s in such a way that an impression of his legacy could be made.

Arriaga: The Three String Quartets

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue